Interesting that page 24 of my edition of the Guardian (28 October) reports “UK economy hit by manufacturing slump” (lower growth of 0.5%); and the opposite page has “UK named sixth best country for business”. I wonder if there is any correlation?
Sean O’Donoghue
Hay-on-Wye, Powys
• I have just seen your headline “Beijing ‘not frightened to fight a war’ against US” (28 October). The UK’s new best friend versus the special relationship? Whose side are we on?
Michael Wharton
Darsham, Suffolk
• Following the amazing success of GB’s male and female gymnastics teams at the current world championships (silver and bronze medals respectively), I’m disappointed that you didn’t find room in your sports pages for more coverage and a couple of pictures of them – medals, muscles, beauty; what’s not to like?
Geoff Bunce
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
• First poppy sighted on 19 October at Euston station, then all TV presenters are wearing them on Saturday 24 October. Most of the larger stores now have their Christmas windows in and departments open and it’s not even Guy Fawkes day yet, never mind Remembrance Day. Has the world gone mad?
Lalita Carlton-Jones
Llandudno, Conwy
• Thanks to Harriet Sherwood (Report, 29 October) for making me squeal with laughter, spitting my pre-work coffee halfway across the cafe, and alerting me to the fact that there’s an “adviser to the all-party parliamentary group on mindfulness”; to the danger of “becoming professionally mindful”; and most of all for the tip-off that “there is a lot of anxiety within the mindfulness community”.
Simon-Peter Trimarco
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
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